/lit/ - Literature

>inb4 piss bottle mountain

>>4236927
Whoa, is it healthy to be down there?

>>4236953

i... i have no words

Battlestation thread?

this thread is 2spooky4me.

>>4237031

Ahh mead and an oil lamp, a wench would complete the dwelling.

Okay, I'll bite. How pleb am I /lit/?

>>4237031

hey Joyce

I live in a cabin out in the woods. I'll try to post a pic later.

>>4237061
>watching dota stream

>>4237074
>Not watching Brad lose all day and all night for the sake of children

have you no soul?

U asked for it

>>4237061
>that automatic painting
Just... Just stop. Don't hedge your bets, go full literature.

I remember you from last year. I think you have a nice window situation going on there. The modular shelving was pretty sharp looking but I can tell you're already lamenting the decision... Longterm literature devotion usually requires sacrificing one whole wall of your living space (cue e-book arguments).

>>4236899
Get rid of your wal-mart triffid and replace it with a desktop lamp. Cozier.

And get a nice one. You can move it into other living spaces later.

>>4237061
how many of those books you read?

>>4237061
>video games

underage b&

>>4237110
About half I think?

>>4237098
Look, I mostly read for fun. Painting is something I do for fun. I'm not planning on becoming the next joyce.

Yes, I am regretting the shelves. It would be better to just fill that on wall with a large shelf top to bottom.

>>4237031
>you will never get all of the spiders out of that room

I have no way to connect my camera to my computer.

>>4237186

why not? is it the ancient construction of the building, or perhaps a more supernatural energy that keeps the spiders in place and deathless?

>>4236927
>they_said_I_was_crazy.jpg

>>4237250
For real?

>>4237031
>>4236927
/lit/ you're creepy

>>4236927
I just love the fact that there are two suits hanging on the wire.

>>4237288
>>4237277
>>4237266

nice

>>4237031
Very nice.

>>4237294
Very consecutive.

>>4237031
shit workspace

very third rate

>>4237031
Nothing of value will ever be written in a place like that, anon. I think you should move elsewhere.

it may be my schizophrenia talking, BUT WILL ALL OF YOU STOP HAVING YOUR BACKS TO OPEN SPACES. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT CAN JUMP AT YOU, OR KILL YOU FROM BEHIND. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??!?!?!?

Obviously most of these aren't actually your rooms, but the very fact they they exist - that someone actually lives like that - is just appalling.

>>4236927
>>4236953
so does /g/ or /v/ go around putting monitors in disgusting basements and then taking pics?

kudos to them, it's hilarious

>>4237324
They don't care about their backs because they're all out to get you, silly anon.

>>4237324
it's easier for spiders to crawl into your hair with your back against the wall.

>>4237336
I'VE TRIED for years to write anything purposeful in notepad or word, and it has become impossible, especially as i get older and my condition worsens. is there anyway i can send the bits i have written through my text prompt. i use the 1224 characters afforded to me by my mobile dumb phone, and i use this area to write stories. notepad and word's large pages makes me panicky. can i text publishers or agents bits of my story in 1224 character text

>>4237349
no but the good news is that this is the internet era so you don't really need any pesky publisher

>>4237336
This. We're hunting >>4237324 . WE are not the ones in danger here.

>>4237264
Continued

>>4236899

>can't do a paragraph
>doesn't indent
>not justified

Dropped.

>>4237340
fuck spiders. i'm more afraid of what's in the black shadows.

>>4237354
but who can i send the text to?

>>4237355
in my room, the only thing behind me is a wall which is four feet behind me, and even then i constantly look back

>not writing in your solarium.

>>4237459
You from australia mate?

>>4237459
so you're facing the window with your back to an open room too, i see.

>>4237461
Look at the egg all over my face! I'm fixing it now.

>>4237462
Yes, but in fairness i keep the door locked at all times. It would be difficult to imagine someone sneaking up on me.

>not writing in your solarium/take 2

>>4237471
DAMN IT!

>>4237467
it's easy enough to imagine. either you're delusional or you live in a safe. if not a safe then you're delusional.

>>4237471

>being this retarded

>>4237266
It is laundry day for me today. It is pretty comfy to finish an essay in a room kept hot as a sauna while your clothes dry and release fresh scents into the warm air.

>>4237510
nova scotia is a weird place

>>4237515
how did you know!?

>>4237518
being charitable enough to work out any other text than tao lin. better than i expected now that it's in focus

>>4237510

I have that same 100 Essential Thinkers book.

>>4237094
w-where are the books?

>>4237518

>book touching the electrical outlet

do you want your house to blow up?

>>4237518
>dalhousie
>not king's master race
Seriously though, be my bro.

>>4237525
Man, I bought it for 10 bucks and it is a great reference when a text name drops!

>>4237532
I'm doing foundation year next year! I also bought my copy of Bleeding Edge from the Kings bookstore...

>>4237532
Where do you live? I'm a north ender. a block down Agricola from the commons.

>>4237555

>keeping the price stickers on your books

I bet you fold the page corners as a book mark

>>4237576
Once I start reading it I am sure I will toss the dust jacket into the trash anyways.

>>4237576
>I bet you fold the page corners as a book mark
wow, nice ad hominem

>>4237555
Anyone else feel like Pynchon ripped of Taipei in cover design?

Luddy knew.

>>4237564
I live in Woodside but spend most of my time in Halifax because of school (Dal).

Bump because I want to see more writing/reading environments.

>>4237662
This is what I aim to emulate

>>4237672
i love the mirror and historic city plan. is that what it is?

My view when writing.

>>4237361
There are several option. You could self-publish, which most of /lit/ hates. You could also ask someone to format these things into legit files, that you could later send to publishers. Or, if you really can't overcome your fears, you could just invest in a good smartphone ( note3 being the best, but cheaper ones will suffice ). There are proper office apps for those. You'll be able to write proper stories and send them to publishers right away, form your phone.

>>4237731
thank you

>>4237695
>i love the mirror and historic city plan. is that what it is?
Yeah, I'm not sure what city it is.

>>4237603
The whole layout of the book is a joke (as in, a humorous gesture), what with the mini-chapters and all the copies of it being oversized and him splashing his name over it in an oversized font, so I wouldn't be surprised, but they could also just be making the same joke, because I doubt Pynchon minds Tao Lin much.

>>4237700
You're superior to me.

I bet you don't even care, how inferior I am.

>>4237800
It's Paris (on the map too)

http://loversofmint.blogspot.fr/2013/08/un-appart-haussmanno-bohemien.html

>>4237672
this is a beautiful apartment

A man can dream.

I quite like it

>>4237877
Can you buy full-wall shelves at like Ikea?

>you will never live in a spartan but cosy boarding house in the swiss alps

>>4237883
Pic looks like a custom job.

>>4237877

Don;t know why you would want a place with such a shitty view.

>>4237700
so beautiful

>tfw weegie faggot scumbucket

>>4237881
You need flux in your life. It's one of the best things ever and will increase your quality of life tremendously.

http://justgetflux.com/

>>4237895
Already got it, I just turned down brightness on screen before taking pic or else it would make the picture even worse quality than it already is, thanks anyway though

>>4237596

>Once I start reading it I am sure I will toss the dust jacket into the trash anyways

Set it aside while reading, sure, but why would anyone throw a dust jacket away?

>>4237893
>not liking fat old trees where nymphs frolic about

>>4237672

Restoration Hardware for the city plan.

That is a very cool room and I would love to live in it. But seriously, those stacks of books have to be dealt with. It's just impractical. Have you ever tried to pull a book from a stack like that? It's maddening.

>>4237903
I consider it exciting.

>>4237877

>Easton Press classics

I'd rather live in a damn cave.

>>4237895
Wow. It's 5:15 a.m. here (I got up at 4), and this is a lot better than the glaring white I had happening before.

>>4237917
why would you get up at 4?

>>4237923
Because I went to sleep at 8 and had a nap before that already.

>>4237931
*had had

>>4237935
no, he went and had it.

>>4237902
>implying any nymph has ever froliced in anon's vicinity

>>4238012
>implying daphne isn't my tree
no laurels or sun for you

>>4237903
nice. but i wish you hadn't said that. it's worse than the >1000 priced stuff on thisiswhyimbroke

>tfw not a bajillionaire

>>4238089
>no typewriter lectern etc

Library down the street from my house. Also, it's where they filmed the exterior scenes for the police station in the original '84 Nightmare on Elm Street.

>>4238284
envious enough I hope Freddy gets you in your sleep.

>>4237529
They are right here

>>4238390
why the zimmerframe?

>>4238398
I use it for dips

>>4238012
>implying my penii don't play the ocarina of pangod hermeneutics

>>4237917
Flux is next level computing. It will save your eyes.

>>4237881
those are some pleb ass books

do you people just leave your clothes lying on the floor?

>>4238531
not if they live in crawl spaces it seems

>>4237894
glasgow's better than edinburgh tho

>>4238555
>glasgow
>better than anywhere
paisley maybe?

>>4236953
>that fat kitty

>>4237518
Is Nick Cave's book any good?
Been thinking about giving it a read.

>>4237700

Wait, are you in DHT?

>>4238555

>Glasgow is better than Edinburgh

Get a load of this guy.

sorry for bad quality

>>4238592
Your wall has a belly button.

>>4238592
what have you written?

>>4238592
What is on your walls? What does girls say when you bring them home?

>>4238592
i really dig your bedframe but it looks like it could be pretty uncomfortable to lean against

Time to separate the boys from the men.

>>4238624
>being a boy

>>4238624
Why the fuck would you ever have a type writer?

>>4238624

Real men obsessed with sehnsucht

>>4238624
...from the pussy?

>>4238624
>horridly uncomfortable chair
>having to re-write a whole page in order to edit it
>lamp on the fucking floor
>wobbly as shit chair and table due to piss poor construction and the fucking rug
>what looks like an outdated copy of Websters

truly you are the master commander of writers everywhere.

>>4238637
not him but a burnt ribbon has no memory

>>4238643
> baww the price for greatness is too much for me!

Enjoy producing Franzen-tier works of literature.

>>4238664
>implying comfort isn't essential to writing well

If discomfort in the work space lead to better writing there would be more authors hiking Everest.

>>4238689
There's a joke about the Dalai Lama here somewhere, but I'm too drunk to make it.

>>4238701
I see it, too, but I'm too sick to make it. At least I appreciated the thought.

>>4238615
>bringing girls home every night

shiggy

>>4238705
Yes. Thoughts are nothing if not appreciable.

>>4238555
soap cunt

>>4236927
Cozy!:)

>>4238701
>>4238705
>>4238717
I imagined laughing.

>>4238527
yeah quite a few are, but there are quite a few good ones you can't see so well due to my shitty phone camera

>>4238759
This post will serve as the inspiration for the title of my memoir, An Imagination of Laughter.

It will be over 1,000 pages long and Tao Lin will commit suicide after reading it.

>>4237094
Haha. I like the vacuum in the middle of the room, as if it's used regularly.

ITT thread: Smelly dumb mentally ill scum. Learn 2 hygiene and order.

>>4238868
wtf is that shit on the bottom of your window?

>>4238868

>muhinimalism

Boring.

>>4238580
Which one? And the Ass Saw the Angel or The Death of Bunny Monroe?

And the Ass Saw the Angel is much more beautifully written, much like his early Bad Seeds albums. Bunny Monroe is an interesting story, but I don't feel like there was as much effort put into it.

Taken a while back, but not much has changed.

>>4238832
It actually is. When I want to clean I throw all the shit on my bed, vacuum, then throw it back down. My place is seriously like 1200 square feet, I have no room for most of my shit.

>>4238872
Are you referring to my egg? Or to the gravel outside?

>>4238880
>requiring excessive external stimuli

Sure sign of the pleebe jeebies.

>>4237700
>Edinburgh

mynigga.jpg

>>4238924
i didn't know Wittgenstein was an inmate.

>>4238967
He didn't live there, he designed it.

>>4238924
2cluttered4me

>>4238978
Why was he designing prisons? Did he even have qualifications? I could design a more efficient use of space than that.

>>4239012

Paul Engelman did the grunt work and i'm sure you know its not a prison.

>>4238884
What is the mic for? podcasts?

How much did you pay?

>>4238584
Not him, but I'm pretty sure its English department actually is.

>>4237358
I am prepping an outline dip shit.

>>4236899
OP here including books

>>4239937
>mfw they're all non fiction books

>>4240027
Help this man he has no face.

There's a lot of fiction there

>>4237471
Are you in Australia? Because the picture is upside down hhaaha :)

>>4238624
I laughed so hard at this.

>>4239937
You look really boring and if I saw this bookshelf in someones house I wouldn't want to be their friend.

This is coming from someone who has a few shelfs devoted to a collection of math textbooks.

>>4240107

>philosophy, history, poetry, religious studies and theory, Native American art and literature.

That's okay you don't enjoy the same stuff I do. I hope you have a great day nonetheless.

Yep... I write on my bed... by hand...

It's about 50/50 between here and at a local coffee shop. I go there when I just can't focus or have horrible writers block.

Or if my cats won't leave me alone. One of my cats actually got into one of my short stories for a class because he kept laying on my keyboard, then everyone thought I put the cat in for some metaphorical reasons, dude guys he was just bugging me.

That little kitten is distracting me currently....

Also I used to write with my laptop only... then I went to see my sister a month ago and forgot my charger.... so... I actually learned I like writing by hand. It forces me to read it again and edit it almost subconsciously while typing it up, I like that.

>>4240132
10/10 would cuddle with you on while talking about literature

>>4236953
fuck that looks comfy

>>4240132
>calendar

pleb
afraid you might forget what day it is?

/lit/ - A Million Wannabe Writers & Two Readers

>>4240238
No I like the pictures.

It's a black cat one, I love black cats.

Also it's still on October..... I should fix that....

But I do forget what day it is all the time because I work third shift.

>>4240107

please post your bookshelf if you feel the need to insult others based on theirs

>>4240132
>dat journal
>dat kitty cat
Confirmed most adorable room of /lit/

>>4240238
If you don't have to worry you might forget what day it is, you're not drinking enough.

>>4240132
Do Americans live in cabins often? I see these wooden walls a lot on these kind of pics and it baffles me. Do you live on a farm or something?

>>4240401
Not that poster, but it that style of paneling was popular in the 70's so it could just be an older house, or it could be a mobile/pre-fab home

>>4240380
It's what I do my writing in too, lol. The kitten isn't as bothersome as my other cats too at least, she just burrows into my chest by my legs when I write.

My bigger cats straight up just sit on my notebook or keep rubbing on my pen.

>>4240420
But this is right. It's paneling. I'm pretty sure this house was built like in the 60s.

>>4240439
>into my chest by my legs
requesting pics of bosom

>>4240132
>One of my cats actually got into one of my short stories for a class because he kept laying on my keyboard, then everyone thought I put the cat in for some metaphorical reasons, dude guys he was just bugging me.
i now have the mental image of your cat being absorbed into your laptop through your keyboard and getting trapped inside your story

>>4240449
I forgot to put an "or " in there.

>>4240462
I fucking love gold tits

>>4240458

>owning more than one book at a time

>>4240508
whoops

So you know the kitten on my bed?

I was eating and she shit right infront of me.

>>4240510
what book is that?

>>4240510
minimalist master race

>>4240554
looky lick aurelio

>>4240132
>>4240380
>>4240145
the same-faggotry. good god the same-faggotry

>>4241677
I was cooking lunch when those posts were made.

But make up shit all you want, butthurt faggot.